TEHRAN –Russian foreign minister says there is little difference between policies of Trump and Obama. The actions of US President Donald Trump’s team are similar to the policies of his predecessor Barack Obama, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview, state-run RIA news agency reported on Thursday. “Unfortunately, many actions of Donald Trump’s […]

TEHRAN – US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley on Wednesday said North Korea’s latest missile test brings Washington and Pyongyang “closer to war.” “If war does come, it will be because of continued acts of aggression like we witnessed yesterday and if war comes, make no mistake, the North Korean regime will be utterly […]

TEHRAN–The United States on Nov. 29 expressed its objections to Ankara’s gas pipeline project with Russia, the Turkish Stream. According to Hurriyet Daily, John McCarrick, the US Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Department of State’s Bureau of Energy Resources, stated that the US opposed to multiple Turkish Stream gas pipeline projects planned by Russia to […]

TEHRAN– A statement released by the spokesperson of Germany’s federal foreign office voices the support of the German government for the Syrian peace talks underway in Geneva and Riyadh. According to the latest statement issued by a federal foreign office spokesperson issued on Tuesday on the latest round of the Syria negotiations in Geneva and […]

TEHRAN– Iran sent a letter of protest to Pakistani interests section of the Islamic Republic of Iran on the murder of the Iranian youth in the US and called for immediate measures to be taken concerning the crime. The letter of the interests section of Iran in Washington reads “we have been informed that Bijan […]

TEHRAN – French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday he would draw up a list of extremist organizations to convey to Saudi Arabia after its crown prince pledged to cut their funding. Saudi Arabia finances groups overseen by the Mecca-based Muslim World League, which for decades was charged with spreading the strict Wahhabi school of […]

Sources in Venezuela have indicated that Rafael Ramirez, the country’s representative to the United Nations in New York, has been removed from his job. Four sources with knowledge of the matter said on Wednesday that Ramirez, once known as Venezuela’s oil czar and a former powerful politician, was dismissed by the government of President Nicolas […]

Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad Hariri has announced that he may retract his resignation by next week. “Matters are positive, as you hear, and if this positivity continues, we will announce, God willing, to Lebanese next week with President Michel Aoun and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri the withdrawal of the resignation,” said a statement released by […]

Former American Secretary of State John Kerry has said both Israel and Egypt pushed the United States to “bomb Iran” before the 2015 nuclear deal was struck. Kerry defended the deal during a forum in Washington, where he said that a number of kings and foreign presidents told the U.S. that bombing was the only […]

Some of the United States’ closest allies, the UK, Germany and France, have formed a united front to defend the 2015 nuclear deal, CNN reported on Tuesday. Without being invited, they’ve organized a joint team to travel to Washington this week, setting up their own meetings to ramp up the pressure on the U.S., according […]